Shine, Shine, Shine is a unique love story and an adventure between worlds. Lydia Netzer delivers a book about death, challenges, and what it means to be human. At times, even though I’m not married with children, I could relate to the anger, sadness, and triumphs of these characters. Again, it’s wonderful when you can feel and relate to a book like that. You should be able to at least finish the book in a weeks time, and it is not challenging at all. It was very refreshing to read such an interesting and not your average story. The books I have read lately seem to have the same tone about them. I never guessed right on the ending, if that gives you some insight.

When Maxon met Sunny, he was seven years, four months, and eighteen days old. Or, he was 2,693 rotations of the earth old. Maxon was different, as you can guess. Sunny was different, too. They were different together. Now, twenty years later, they are married, and Sunny wants, more than anything, to be “normal.” She’s got the housewife thing down, but Maxon, a genius engineer, is on a NASA mission to the moon, programming robots for a new colony. Once they were two outcasts who found unlikely love in each other: a wondrous, strange relationship formed from an urgent desire for connection. But now they’re parents to an autistic son. And Sunny is pregnant again. And her mother is dying in the hospital. Their marriage on the brink of imploding, and they’re at each other’s throats with blame and fear. What exactly has gone wrong?

When an accident in space puts the mission in peril, everything Sunny and Maxon have built hangs in the balance. Dark secrets, long-forgotten murders, and a blong wig all come tumbling to the light. And nothing will ever be the same….(cue cliff hanger music)

Catch us next, on our episode about fairy tales!

As Apocalyptic/dystopian fiction is becoming a trend in our today’s world, their not only being written for young adults. Some are being written for adults, and a lot of them have already been written several years ago, even hundreds of years ago. So sit back, make yourself a hot cup of tea or coffee, and let me list the TOP 25 Apocalyptic fiction according to Me, Amazon, and Huffington Post .

1.  The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

2.  The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
(our library carries this)

3.  The Long Tomorrow
by Leigh Brackett

4.  Make Room! Make Room!
by Harry Harrison
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

5.  Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany

6. Barefoot in the World
by Brian W. Aldiss

7. Grey Beard
by Brian W. Aldiss

8.  Immobility
by Brian Evenson
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

9.  The Stand
by Stephen King

10.  In the Country of Lost Things
by Paul Auster

11. The Scarlet Plague
by Jack London

12.  The Last Man
by Mary Shelley
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

13.  The Purple Cloud
by M. P. Shiel

14.  Cat’s Craddle
by Kurt Vonnegut
(our library carries this)

15.  The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
(our library carries this)

16.  The Death of Grass
by John Christopher

17.  Oryx and Crake 
by Margaret Atwood
(our library carries this)

18.  A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller, JR.
(our library carries this)

19.  Dr. Bloodmoney
by Philip K. Dick
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

20.  Alas Babylon
by Pat Frank
(our library carries this)

21.  Lucifer’s Hammer
by Larry Niven
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

22.  Wastelands:  Stories of the Apocalypse
by George R.R. Martin

23.  Swan Song
by Robert R. McCammen
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

24.  One Second After
by William R. Forstchen
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do

25.  Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
(our library does not carry this book, but other libraries in our consortium do)

Stay tuned for Episode Two! Coming to a YouTube channel near you.

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Cauli Le Chat
MPL Feline Roving Reporter
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P.S. The theme music for Meg-a-Rae was written by the Library’s composer, whom I call the Music Man. It is “The Andromeda Cometh,” from the CD Andromeda (2011). Here is the entire song for your listening pleasure.